Mcable Upscaling Hdmi Cable Review

Marseille s mcable gaming edition is an hdmi cable that promises to improve image quality in your games adding anti aliasing and enhanced colour detail to anything that s thrown at it at a price.

Mcable upscaling hdmi cable review. To take the pictures i just swapped between a standard hdmi cable and the mcable. Images have not been altered in any way other than cropped. Halo 2 zoom necessary. Hdmi regular hdmi cable.

You re gonna want to zoom in to notice full differences they re all very high resolution. The company makes mcable cinema edition and the mcable gaming edition two other external upscaling solutions built into hdmi cables. But without hdcp 2 2 support it plays ultra hd blu ray. Normal hdmi cords are thinner than this and have a lot more bendability than the mcable does.

Update 12 20 2017 my thoughts after using it for 2 months. The mcable s secret sauce is the embedded video processing chip in the cable which is powered by the usb connection. The mcable itself looks just like a regular hdmi cable except that the ends are a little larger. The first of those technologies upscaling is relatively simple.

I ve only been using it in full hd monitors and tvs no 4k ones. Positives i still find the upscaling to be very nice on non hd sources. Mcable the cable being reviewed. These cords require power to activate the chip and for some reason.

The marseille mcable s video processor is integrated into its hdmi output connector marseille mcable. The one major drawback to these cables is that they come with a third cable that s a usb link on the source end. All photos were taken with an iphone as i do not have an hdmi screen capture device. Upscaling the marseille cable handles hdmi video signals in the following resolutions.

If you try to wind this up you ll find that you can t do it as tightly as you maybe could with an off the shelf hdmi cord. Mcable was attached to a 10 bit component to hdmi converter. 480p i 576p i 720p i and 1080p i and each signal is processed differently depending on the frame rate. This hdmi cable has a built in microprocessor for upscaling and improving 1080p and lower resolution video content displayed on 4k uhd tvs.